good-by meaning (dated): definition, quotations

good-by

intj

Dated Dated form of goodbye.

“Good-by, then,” said Phœbe, frankly. “I do not mean to be angry a great while, and should be sorry to have you think so. There has Cousin Hepzibah been standing in the shadow of the door-way, this quarter of an hour past! She thinks I stay too long in the damp garden. So, good-night, and good-by!”1851 April 9, Nathaniel Hawthorne, “Phœbe’s Good-by”, in The House of the Seven Gables, a Romance, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor, Reed, and Fields, →OCLC, page 235:
"It's good-by for good, Margot, good-by and good luck."1924 July 23 [1923 August 23], Samuel Badisch Ornitz, “Sixth Period”, in Haunch Paunch and Jowl, eighth printing, New York, N.Y.: Boni and Liveright, section I, page 265:

noun

Dated Dated form of goodbye.

Our daughter Lynda had been flying all night from California on the "Red Eye Special." She had just said good-by to her husband, Chuck, who was leaving for duty in Vietnam.1971, Lyndon Johnson, “A Beginning and an End: March 31, 1968”, in The Vantage Point, Holt, Reinhart & Winston, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 431: